THIS WEEK # 3

SCANNING THE BRAIN FOR LIES
ARNDT (2005) BUSINESS WEEK 11/7 123

Polygraphs have about 70% accuracy. MRI’s have about 90% accuracy, and researchers want to improve upon that percentage. Look for more research in this area.

FIGHTING AGAINST THE AVIAN FLU
ADLER (2005) NEWSWEEK, 10/21/ 29-47

AVIAN FLU is one tough viral strain. What can you do? Get masks, a drinkable can of liquid or bottled water, some cash, and canned foods. Stay inside. 98 % will live but
elderly and young kids under 6 will die. In other words, they will be over represented in the fatal column. Don’t breath directly into your pet’s nose or mouth. Wear mask as much as possible. Get TAMI –FLU if you can. Avoid people with coughs and runny nose or sweating. Take Tami flu within 48 to 72 hours after feeling like the flu is coming on. The medication MAY work if you the strain that you are given is weak.
Avoid fresh meats. Stay with canned goods. Pray.

IVY LEAGUE SCHOOLS NOT TRUE MERITOCRACIES
EWERS/ U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT, 11/7/ 30

The top schools in the country must satisfy their alumni by taking their kids into the school. That is called LEGACY affirmative action. The other affirmative action is fading and now the Ivies are filled with smarter people, but held back by alumni kids. They have yet to get a vocational degree for non-business majors and thus one is stuck with strict liberal arts alternatives. That means graduate school of masters and doctorates are necessary. Over the years, Jews were left out, but are now coming back. Asians are over represented.

THE PERMANENT CAMPAIGN
KLEIN (2005) TIME, 11/7/ 44

Years ago, Pat Caddell working for Jimmy Carter maintained that a president must continually campaign. In other words, what ever there is of substance as well as style the public must know about it. The mass of voters must continually be reminded of why they should vote for you. Or, why they voted for you in the last election. The Permanent Campaign has now come to the Bush white house. Through Karl Rove, the campaign always continues. When one can not do substance, then it is time for spin. Bush has been good about this, because his staff is good. He can not run the white house without many of his staff that date back from Texas and yet he must if he is to get a jump start and change his staff. If not, he may stay low in the polls. Numerous previous presidents when in trouble had to fire a lot of staff and put new blood in the white house. This is something Bush may do but probably won’t so he will try to spin and spin.

BODY TRACKER
IHLWAN (2005) BUSINESS WEEK, 10/31/ 40.

Your cell phone can be a body tracker for where you go every day. The tracker is in the cell phone. It is 1984 in 2005. However, most want to be tracked by a loved one to let them know that they are okay. This really applies to love ones…especially kids. Further, husbands and wives can track each other. The family feels safer and can get a hold of each other in a safer way. This did not hold previous to 9/11. Now it all makes sense.
Kids can know where their parents are too.

DOUBLING UP
TERGESEN (2005) BUSINESS WEEK, 10/31/ 92-94

Although there are record profits as this is being written, the life style of the bottom 80% appears to be declining. Thus kids do not leave home. Three generations or more live under the same roof and the statistic continues to climb (38% from 1990 to today.) Thus one has to learn about flexibility, communication, thinking creatively among other things. The statistic conflates somewhat with the usual American life style with the vast introduction of Mexican immigrants who live in multi-generational households. However, the climb is also arising from American born families. It is the wave of the future.

BILL O’REILLY WANTS TO CHANGE LIFESTYLE AND CALL IT QUITS
__________(2005) THE WEEK, 11/4/ 14

Fox superstar Bill O’Reilly wants out. He is best known for his attack of all things non-conservative and in some cases conservative (you would be surprised) At any rate, since he settled a sexual harassment suit lodged against him by Adrea Mackris, he has received numerous dearth threats and he is tired of it. He lives in a highly guarded home and has numerous guards that accompany him every where. He no longer likes being famous and he has made a lot of money so who needs it. He is worn out.

FOOTBALL IS TOO VIOLENT
Will (2005) NEWSWEEK, 11/7/ 88

After Bear Bryant became coach, football players got too big and became dangerous to themselves and others. The average lineman in Bryant’s day was 200 pounds. Today, it is near 300 pounds or more. With special diets, weight training, and perhaps steroids, football players starting in high school through to the professional are monsters. They are also specialists and are tough. They also have a 52% greater chance of heart failure than the average student.